190 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
doubt that it produces a larger weight of green food than any 
other crop raised in the United States except, perhaps, sor- 
ghum, and this renders its study as a soiling crop of the 
highest importance. * * * Τὸ 15 a most desirable crop, as 
it can be fed in combination with clover, oats and peas, and 
other more nitrogenous food. The largest crops may be 
grown with the large Western or Southern varieties of field 
corn; and next to these, Mammoth sweet corn and Stowell’s 
Evergreen sweet corn, The quality of the sweet varieties is 
better than the field varieties. The greatest amount of de- 
sirable nutriment is obtained by planting in drills 32 inches 
apart, so that the corn can be thoroughly cultivated. The 
sweet corn will then grow ears upon a large proportion of the 
stalks, and these ears in the soft state greatly improve the 
quality of the food for both fattening and milk production. 
When thus grown cattle fatten rapidly upon it, and cows 
yield milk abundantly. Corn is so easily grown and pro- 
duces so largely that dairymen make it the principal green 
food to sustain their herds upon short pasture. Judicious 
feeders, when they have no other gréen food but fodder corn, 
are in the habit of feeding wheat bran and middlings with 
the corn-fodder, so as to make it a well-balanced food.” 
Early cutting objectionable._lIf cut at a 
very early stage green corn is too watery, and 
unsatisfactory results may ensue unless grain 
or hay is fed in connection with it. Corn es- 
pecially lacks in protein, but this may be sup- 
plied in bran or other grain which contains a 
fairly large per cent of this substance. Says 
the late Prof. L. B. Arnold, than whom there 
was no better authority on dairying fifteen 
years ago:* 
‘‘Those who have condemned it have fed it too young, or 
have sown it so thick that its aliment (nutriment) was not 
* American Dairying, 1879, p. 72. 
